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Wilfred Cass

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Based in Goodwood, West Sussex, the charitable foundation's aim was to promote and advance British sculpture to a global audience through a vigorous programme of commissioning, funding and marketing, the Foundation has enabled the fabrication of 150 major new works by leading British artists. In
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Plc, where he reorganised the whole of the troubled group including moving and selling its head office, starting up a new range of Suit Shops and buying Cecil Gee Plc. He remained at the company until 1991.
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After the war, Cass worked in 1946–1947 as junior research engineer for Telephone Rentals in Knightsbridge, London, before embarking on an HND in Communication Technology at the
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Frances Follin, 'Wilfred Cass, co-Founder of the Cass Sculpture Foundation, is 90!', in Cassone: The International Online Magazine of Art and Art Books, November 2014
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Upon retiring from Moss Bros in 1992, Cass moved from London to West Sussex, near Chichester, where he co-founded the registered charity, The
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Sculpture Series Heads - Terracotta Portraits of Contributors to British Sculpture (2013) Hall, P., Scott, M. & Pheby, H.
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http://www.cassone-art.com/magazine/article/2014/11/wilfred-cass-champion-of-british-sculpture/?psrc=perspectives
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brain surgeon, and his other great uncles included a publisher, an industrialist and the philosopher,
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collection includes a portrait of Wilfred and Jeannette Cass by
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In 1979, Cass and his son, Mark, set up Image Bank UK, part of
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which is in the collection of the sitter and was exhibited at
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Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
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In later life the Casses lived on the grounds of the
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prize for "Promoting Enjoyment of the Visual Arts".
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In 1987 Cass became chairman and chief executive of
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Index

CBE
FRSA
Cass Sculpture Foundation
Berlin
Jewish
Cassirer
Paul Cassirer
impressionists
Europe
Richard Cassirer
German
Ernst Cassirer
Regent Street Polytechnic
London
The Image Bank
Getty Images
Moss Bros
Cass Sculpture Foundation
Henry Moore
Elisabeth Frink
Moores
Frinks
Ayrtons
National Art Collections Fund
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
honorary degree
Open University
Cass Sculpture Foundation
National Portrait Gallery
Anne-Katrin Purkiss

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